Portable talking-machine.



A. STECHBART.

PORTABLE TALKING MACHINE.

APPLICATlON FILED SEPT. 18. 1916.

Patented June 19, 1917.

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Application and September is, me. serial at. 120,596.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR S'rnonnnn'r, a subject of the Empire of Russia, and a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook, State of Illinois, have invented certain new and usefiil' Improvements in Portable Talking liiachines, of which the following is a I specification.

This invention relates to a compact formation and association of the component parts of a talking machine adapted to beT-iolded together into a compact and convenient form for transportation. from place to place. And the present improvement has for its object to provide a structural formation and association of parts whereby the talking machine may be compactly folded together, and with which provision is made for the convenient storage of a stock of sound records, all as will hereinafter more any appear.

In the aecoinpanying drawing:

Figure 1, is a perspective view of a talking machine embodying the present invention, with the parts shown in an open and active position, and with the sound box arm shown in an inactive position in dotted lines.

if is a longitudinal sectional elevation' of the same, with the parts in a closed and inactive position.

Similar reference numerals indicate like parts in both views.

Referring to the drawing, 1 designates the body portion, and 2 the hinged cover portion of the inclosing casing of a talking machine of the disk-record type, the parts being finished and trimmed to resemble a traveling suit case or the like. ihe body portion 1 is preferably of a rectangular box form and houses the motor mechanism as well as the fixed forwardly extending sound amplifying conveyer or horn 3 of the machine. The outlet end of said conveyor or horn 3 is associated with a sound regulating door 4 or like provision in the front wall of the body portion 1 of the machine casing.

5 designates the record carrier, mounted to rotate above the top web or closure 6 or the body portion lof the machine casing, and adapted to receive rotation from a suitable motor arranged in said body portion 1.

7 designates the. horizontally swinging tone or sound boifarm, pivotally associated withthe innerend at the convever or horn 3 aforesaid, and carrying at its free end the sound box or reproducer 8, as'shown.

The construction and arrangement of parts so far described are common to talking machines now in general use, and may be of any ordinary and usual type, the material part of the present invention comprising in connection therewith features as follows 9 designates a sound-record storage chain-- her formed on the under side of the hinged cover 2 of the machine casing, with its rear wall 10 disposed a distance in front of the rear Wall 11 or said cover to provide an open bottom space or chamber 12., to receive the sound box arm 7 aforesaid, when the same is in its inactive position as illustrated in full lines in Fig. 2 and in dotted lines in Fig. 1.

13 designates a lid or door of the droptype, hinged. at the open front end of the storage chamber 9 aforesaid, and adapted to afford convenient access through the open front of said chamber to the sound records stored therein, and to close said chamber and protect the sound records when the machine is closed for storage, transportation, etc.

1a designates a recess formed in the top board or web 6 of the machine casing, and adapted to receive the lower portion of reproducer 8 and its needle and needle carrier, when the machine is in its closed condition,

to hold said parts in place, and at the same time decrease the height required in the chamber 12 aforesaid, as illustrated in Fig. 2.

Having thus fully described my said invention, what I claim as'new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A casing comprising, a rectangular box shaped body member having a sunken partition. providing an open top chamber for the record carrier of a talking machine, a cover member hinged at its rear end to said body member and divided by an L shape partition into a forward storage chamber and a rearward open bottom chamber adapted to receive the reproducer and tone arm of talking machine after the same has been swung back into an inoperative position.

2. A casing comprising, a rectangular box shaped body member having a sunken partition providing an open top chamber for the record carrier of a talking machine, a i

cover member hinged at its rear end to said body member and divided by an L shape partition into a forward storage chamber and u renrwzu'd open bottom chamber adapt ed to receive the reproducer and tone arm of talking machine after the same has been swung backinto an inoperative position,

the aforesaid sunken partition having a recess for the reception of the lower portion of said reproducer.

' Signed at Chicago, Illinois, this 15th dziy of September, 1916.

ARTHUR sTEoH-BARn- 

